t1lib is a library distributed under the GNU General Public
Library License for generating character- and string-glyphs
from Adobe Type 1 fonts under
UNIX. t1lib uses most of the code of the X11 rasterizer
donated by IBM to the
X11-project. But some disadvantages of the rasterizer being
included in X11 have been eliminated. Here are some of the
features:

t1lib is completely independent of X11 (although the
program provided for testing the library needs X11)

fonts are made known to library by means of a font database file
at runtime

searchpaths for all types of input files are configured by means
of a configuration file at runtime

characters are rastered as they are needed

characters and complete strings may be rastered by a simple
function call

when rastering strings, pairwise kerning information from
.afm-files may optionally be taken into account

an interface to ligature-information of afm-files is
provided

a program to generate afm-files from Type 1 font files is
included

rotation and arbitrary transformations are supported

there's support for extending and slanting fonts

underlining, overlining and overstriking is supported

new encoding vectors may be loaded at runtime and fonts may be
reencoded using these encoding vectors

antialiasing is implemented

Right-To-Left typesetting is supported

Font subsetting is easily possible

support of composite character information

An interactive test program called "xglyph" is included in the
distribution. This program allows to test all of the features of the
library. It requires X11.

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